providing family-centered compassionate care of the highest quality to all children.

"It is our mission to give our patients the best in spiritual, emotional and medical care."

G. Kris Bysani, MD Chief of Pediatric Intensive Care

One of the most advanced in the state, the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit is equipped and staffed to care for babies, children, and young adults preparing for or recovering from surgery. Nearly 800 patients are admitted each year.

Here in the Children’s Hospital of Illinois, our young patients are cared for by a team of pediatric intensivists, pediatric cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and cardiac anesthesiologists working together to offer the highest quality patient care.

The 12-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit can provide even the most critically ill child the chance of surviving illnesses once considered universally fatal.

All of the intensive care beds are private, including two isolation rooms especially equipped for patients with suppressed immune systems. The neonatal ICU is equipped to care for 35 patients. Additionally there are 7 intermediate care beds.

On staff are five intensivists, pediatric physicians with additional training in the care of seriously ill children.

Along with the specially trained nurses, respiratory therapists and other specialists, the intensivists provide conventional and advanced critical care for cardiovascular ICU patients. We have the capabilities, the skills to utilize technologies such as:

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
(ECMO)
High frequency jet ventilation
High frequency oscillation
Nitric oxide administration
Continuous hemofiltration with
and without dialysis
Hemodialysis
Peritoneal dialysis
Pediatric sedation & analgesia
Pediatric Home Ventilation
Continuous EEG monitoring

Our staff includes:

G. Kris Bysani, MD
Dr. Bysani received his medical degree from Mysore Medical College, Mysore University in 1982.

He completed his Pediatric residency at Southern Illinois University, Springfield, IL in 1986, and finished his Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at University of Tennessee, Memphis and The Cardiothoracic division at the St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Memphis, in 1989.

Adalberto Torres, MD, MS
Dr. Torres received his medical degree from University of Illinois, Rockford, in 1986.

He completed his Pediatric residency at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois in 1989, and finished his Pediatric Critical care fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 1992.

Julie Wohrley, MD
Dr. Wohrley received her medical degree from Universidad Central del Este, Dominican Republic, in 1985.

She completed her Pediatric residency at Lutheran General Children’s Medical Center, Park Ridge, IL in 1991, and finished her Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at The Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado in 1994.

Sergie Shushunov, MD
Dr. Shushunov received his medical degree from Pediatric Medical Institute, Petersburg, Russia in 1977

He completed his Pediatric residency at University of Illinois Hospital, Chicago, IL in 1985, and finished his Pediatric Critical Care fellowship at The University Hospital of Jacksonville in 1987.

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